``Not just anyone makes a good pisser.
``--Jean-Claude Lebensztejn Jean-Claude Lebensztejns history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280-2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general.
Lebensztejn is one of Frances best-kept secrets.
A world-class art historian who has lectured and taught at major universities in the United States, his work has remained almost entirely in French, his American audience limited to a small but dedicated group of cognoscenti.
First introducing the Manneken Pis--the iconic little boy whose stream of urine supplies water to this famous fountain and is also the logo for a Belgian beer company--the author takes the reader through a semi-scatological maze of cultural history.
The earliest example is a fresco scene located directly above Cimabues ``Crucifixion`` from around 1280 at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, in which Lebensztejns careful eye locates an angel behind a pillar urinating through a hole in his garment.
He continues to navigate expertly through cultural twists and turns, stopping to discuss Pier Paolo Pasolinis 1968 film Teorema , for example, and Marlene Dumass 1996-97 homage to Rembrandts pissing woman.
At every moment, Lebensztejns prose is lively, his thinking dynamic, and his subject matter entertaining.
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